The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 4, 1900, Page 25

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1900. NEWS OF THE BAY CITIES \ 25 NEWS OF THE BAY UITIES BETTER WATER DEMANDED OF THE MONOPOLY Monthly Analysis by the Chemist. akland Office San Francisco Call, %08 Broadway, Feb. 3 ciiman Cuvellier will to-morrow night's meeting directing the city chemist ysis of the water supplied Costa Compan want HAPPENINGS IN SOCIETY CIRCLES - EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE BOND WORKERS Officers of Fabiola Hospital. ng secre tant H : D. M hospi We can’t give you credit? but we can ve you oney on every dollar’s vorth of goods you buy. ¢ Ghirardelli’s Eagle . ¢ Chocolate pound 19c9 Regular 25c Breakfast Cocoa delli's best—34 Ib tin. ¢ ZS(" “There’s method in our mad- ness.”’-Quotation by Ghirardelli Fine Dry Gran. Sugar kel's b - - poumil 5c$ New Mixed Nuts.3 lbs 25¢y Soft shell, and are all good ¢ ¢ A B S ¢ Washing Ammonia g 0 ¢ Pait> bottle 50 ¢Cloths Pins dozen lc‘ W e 'Strong Eastern Cheese et onieg. pound 15cy ¢ New Table Fruit Escle brand Peaches or apricots. # Goodfraitin pure 2 CAMS 25C¢ sugar syrup. It's far below ¢ Wholesale price. ¢C. & B. Chow Chow [} '] ;&5‘;“‘1’{ New bottle 30c alar gEdam Cheese.. Regular 85c size. f Duffy’s Malt Whiskey : Regular 8o bottle 75¢ ¢Golden Crescent Whiskey, Distiery bottting. DOttle 60c Regriar 25 gallon $2.609 ..70c4 ’ (4 » $3.00. #Zinfandel Wine. gallon 50 T #Pure Alcohol.gallon $3.00 ¢ Full proof. st. 8. ¥, Shattuck Av, Perkeley Central Av,. #167 Brosdway, “ th & Wood, Oak @ o TBOITTETNd introduce a | 3 Mrs. Q. A. Ch: M Qs Chase Mrs. James A Folger, R. Dav! . Stan- deford, Mrs. Rem! rs. H E. irs. C. W. on and Mrs. FIREMAN’S FUND WINS FROM COLLEGE TEAM | BERKELEY, Feb. 8.—The first regular | game of baseball of the season in Berke- ley was played this afternoon on the col- lege campus between the Fireman's Fund and the University of California. The game, although not particularly exciting, cresting for several reasons. an’s Fund team lined up against Stanford last Saturday and defeated them by & score of § to 2. To-day they defeated | California 7 to 4. - play of the collegians was ragged ral places, but on the whole a very | 1n se creditable game was played. put up by the W George Gan Haltren, who has been en- gaged to coach the college men, umpired the game and watched the weak spots in the team. The play of the men, he said, was fairly good, but there was no team work. He will take the squad in hand next Monday and in a couple of weeks should t a very good team. He will have weeks to coach the men in the several finer points of the game before they go the intercollegiate contest with §tan- n's Fund—Schmeer, shortstop; N. Ham- tcher; Krug, pitcher and fleld first base; Webber, second base: ad,’ pitcher and left field; Butler, right Dunn, third base; J. Hammond, center niversity of Calfforn! shortstop; . center fleld; ; Fuller, tcher; a—Mein, in pitcher; field; Carter, center center Umptres- | FRIEN 7an Haltren and Goldworthy. DLESS OLD WOMAN KILLED BY AN ENGINE The old woman killed by the light engine at 1 this morning was to-day identified ary Brown, who has been living In at the foot of Broadway for some who wi ad none too much of th n be found. She was ut- she was wandering around In the ted neighborhood where she wax 1ot known. The light engine was at a high rate of speed, for the this point runs over a marsh o streets are not cut through. The oman was Seen before she was late to stop the engine, RAN AWAY TO MARRY, NOW WANTS A DIVORCE OAKLAND, Feb. 3.—The sequel to the sensational elopement of Belle Haswell Brom: ago was late tt filed an applicat te arey lady to provide her of life for a her comp r fc Mayon examinér for the Anc ted Workmen on the Pacific D 1t s & son of L. L. formerly a member of Oak- —_—ee———— EVENTS AT THE OAKLAND THEATERS OAKLAND, Feb. 3—The new stock y at the Macdonough Theater has its first week successfully. The seem to appreciate the t and at moderate prices, en a steady growth of ¥ for the coming week Hadden,” w Yorl which made done well with or this week will play 1 yming e INDEBTEDNESS OF THE CONTRA COSTA COMPANY OAKLAND, Feb. 3.—The certificate of | the meeting of the Contra Costa Water | Company stockholders last November, when the bonded indebtedness was in- creased $600.000, has been filed. The in- btedness was enlarged so as to enable se of the artesian wells at Ala- stock of the company is »f $100 each. One hundred f $1000 each were ped. e MRS. HEARST RECEIVES UNIVERSITY FACULTY | Feb. Mrs. Phebe A. received the faculty, post grad- s and members of the senlor class of University of California at Hearst this afternoon. morrow afternoon the members of for and sophomore classes will at- e Henry Holmes concert in Hearst tend th Hall De Golia Is Vindicated. OAKLAND, Feb. 3.—The Byrod estate practically settled to-day by Judge Hall, who ordered Darwin C. de Golla to file his account on Tuesday, at which time he intimated that he would give a decision for De Golia. Byrod had an interest in his wife's estate, and De Golia took the case upon an assignment of Byrod. | George W. Kelly of Sacramento secured p tequent assignment and charged De | C with 1 d. Judge Hall to-day sald that De Golia’s claim was a good one, in- asmuch as he had given Byrod a half in- terest in the estate —_————— Notes From the University. | BERKELEY, Feb. 3.—The election of | officers of the ‘freshmen class resulted as follows: President, Robert Sibley; vice president, Miss A.' Finnch; sergeant at tie between C. C. Finn and F. 3 ; executive committee—G. R. She- ney, Miss Annie McCleave, C. P. Jones | and’ C. L. Crool There will be a rally in Hearst Hall next Wednesday evening by the students for the purpose of enthusing the debating team. Among the speakers will be Ar- thur Eiston 97, Will Gorrill '85, Miss Jes- sie Peixotto, Seth Mann, Isadore Golden Charles Wheeler and Professor Thomas | B."Bacon. | ——————— Lecture and Concert. OAKLAND, Feb. 3.—An fllustrated lec- ture on “The Beauties of Ireland,” inter- spersed with Irish songs and muste, will be given in the Sacred Heart Hall, corner of Grove and Forty-first streets, next Monday night. The following persons will take part in the musical programme: Professor Arrillaga, Miss Ida Valerga, Miss Nellie O'Rourke, Daniel Warde, ali of San Francisco; Professor A. W. Craig of Portland, Or.; Miss E. Arriilaga, Miss Rose Turner and the Aeolian Club of Oak- land. —_——— Formed a ‘“Medical Club.” | ALAMEDA, Feb. 3.—The physiclan: aentists and ‘druggists of Alameds have organized a medical club. Dr. H. M. Pond and Dr. A. A. Stafford are the origina- tors. The clubrooms in the Methodist church block have been neatly fitted up. sttt e o Nl The | The game | irance men was as it al- | old woman has been cared for by | , and seems to have had no | Brom- | The couple were secret nd and wife at San Rafael, when the affair became known- it | ed gossip which lasted for several s that Keeps the theater | .. e e e e ) | | WiTH A | ISS OLIVE WHITE, a frall young miss of 16 years, re- siding with her mother at 93 Twenty - sixth avenue, East Oakland, had & desperate en- counter with two masked burglars In her bedroom, at 2:30 o'clock yesterday morning. She grappled with one of them and was creating havoc with her finger-nails on the skin of his and neck when the other robber came to the rescue of his pal. The pair choked the plucky girl into a semi- conscious condition and then wrapped a coverlet around her head, stuffing a portion of it in her mouth to pre- vent her from screaming. They tled the coverlet into an intricate knot, after which they hurriedly escaped through the window, which afforded them an entrance. The police were notified, but all the officers did was to make an effort to squeich the story. The voung lady, fragile as she is, aid not faint. Instead, as soon as her assaflants fled, she tore the covering from her head and vociferously screamed for ald. A young man who was sleeping in the house at the time responded, but fafled to follow the murderous burglars. Miss White 1s now suffering from nervous prostra- tion. “T noticed two fellows lurking about the house’ said Miss White this af- ternoon. “That was Thursday evening about supper time. A couple of hours later they were there again, and I be- came alarmed. Papa Is dead and there are no men folks in the house, g0 we decided to ask a friend of the family to sleep on the premises. He did so, but I was still scared and could not sleep. Finally I got up and, collecting all my jewelry and a num- ber of keepsakes which belonged to a sister who dled a year ago, put 088 CISORIROIC FOTOIMBIU DIORARARO DEOROLO OROL 0RO QOOR OO WORARALON % ONOR 0RO ROV OB HORY! COMPLAINS OF RAILWAY CARS Dr. Stafford Exposes a Nuisance. ALAMEDA, Feb. 3.—Dr. Stafford di- rected the attention of the Board of Health last night to the unsanitary condi- tion of the cars in use on the narrow- gauge local trains. The board will de- mand that the Southern Pacific Company improve the condition of its cars. Dr. Stafford told his colleagues the cars on the narrow-gauge were actually fllthy; that they were poorly ventilated and greatly overcrowded. He sald the evil existed principally on the morning and evening trains, when business men went to and from their work. There were not enough cars to comfortably accommodate passengers. They were packed like sar- Gines. The result was the air in the cars became fetid and unfit for human lungs. The smoking cars were the most unsan- itary on account of tobacco smoke and expectoration. he rallroad officials have been deluged with communications by patrons com- plaining of the unhealthy cars, but ap- parently no attempt has been made to AS UNSANITARY MISS OLIVE WHITE. b5 @O0 ORORC ROMOR URORORIOROBIOTON WORORIOLIONIN0Q | YOUNG GIRL BATTLES WITH TWO DESPERATE BURGLARS them in a shoe. Then I placed the things under the bed and retired again. I lay and shivered until about 1 o'clock, when I fell off into an un- quiet sleep. “The next thing T knew I was wide awake and saw two men moving about. They rifled the drawers of the dresser without finding anything, and then one of them slipped” his hand under my pillow. I was afraid he was Jing to chloroform me and I got so scared that 1 scarcely breathed. ‘hen he withdrew his hand he ut- tered an almost inaudible oath and the pair started for the door leading into the hallway. One of them sud- denly ¢ ged his mind and, coming back, oped down and started to grope ab with his hands under the ed. ““This was too much. Mementos of my dear dead sister were in danger. I leaped to the floor and grappled him around the neck. Then I tore the mask from his face and commenced to use my finger-nafls. He started to fight me and curse. The next instant his partner had me by the throat and choked me. Then they shoved a part of the hed coverlet into my mouth and twisted the rest around my head and neck, after which they jumped out of the window and fled. As soon as I could free m I screamed. the gentleman - house came quickly, e declded that it was no use to follow. “The next day—that was yesterday —the pollce were notifled. An old fol- low who said he was a detective camo up and sald, after hearing my_story, that I had a_nightmare, but I have got a piece of the man's tie to show that it was no dream.” Chief Hodgkins said that he had heard nothing of the case and dld not know who the wise sleuth was. Be- sides the mask, the young lady se- cured a plece of a red necktie belong- ing to one of the burglars. She also bears several brulses and scratches as a result of the encounter. remedy matters. All the patrons demand is the same accommodations as those of the broadgauge. * Social Settlement Meeting. OAKLAND, Feb. 3—The Soclal Settle- ment Association held its annual meeting yesterday at the residence of Mrs. Ta- shefra, Linda Vista terrace. Much good work has been done during the past year. Work on the new building, which is the gift of Mrs. S. T. Alexander, will be com- | menced immediately. Miss Ethel Moore and Miss Grace Bernard are planning the | kindergarten. — Miss ah Horton is president of the association and among the active workers are Mrs. S. T. Alex- ander, Mrs. Ida Gorrill, Mrs. Lioyd Row lings, Mrs. Charles Goddard, Mrs, Rich- ard Lyman, Mrs. Frederick Turner, Mrs. S. J. Taylor, Mrs. J. M. Cushing, Mrs. Gertz, Mrs. Charles Cotton, Mrs. A. D. Thompson, Miss Alexander, Miss Ada Bates, Miss Fannie Smith and Miss An- nie Brown. Sl An Aged Lover. OAKLAND, Feb. 3.—Warren B. Ewer of Pledmont, who has passed four score of vears, 13 about to be married for the fitth time, He has secured a license to yed Ora S. Healy, aged 45, of San Fran- cisco. The aged lover is a membe; of Dewc;. Strong & Co. of glonf g:n’x":m co. He has not taken an active part business, however, for several years, —— e Sisters Quarrel Over Estate. OAKLAND, Feb. 3.—War h - menced over the estate of Marlan ¢ Hourith, which {s valued at $23,000. The deceased left the progeny to her two daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Perigo and Mrs. Susan H. Wheeler, making the lat- ter executrix. r:rha'rfirmer now claims at her sister has failed to a $4250 which came into her l'ua.l'ni:.ccm.t 1o 11 in J pattern. coons. once suspicious. fire. An alarm was turned According to an eminent scientist, the alkall In asparagus develops form in the human brain. lis +RARIRIR IRNeBeR e +R+ R R %O Mr. Dempsey took & hand in a club game of poker with a party of three, and played In extraordinarily good luck for a stranger. So the members glued thelr lamps upon Jack Dempsey, with the result that they caught him with three aces up his sleeve. The discovery was the signal for the ‘‘rough house act.” and he fought back. Chairs and cuspidors crashed about the room and through the windows and the coal ofl heater was upset, setting the place on Smoke poured through the windows, while the indomitable Dempsey lay sprawling on top of the billiard table chewing the black ear of Mr. Julian Dennis and the other members were piling down stairs velling “‘fire."” in from box 98 and Chief Sulllvan and the entire Fire Department were on the scene. players were put out simultaneously. Dempsey was hauled off to the City Prison on a charge of disturbing the peace and the defrauded members of the poker game have sworn the highbinders’ oath against him. @55 4B RN IR N RN+ BB IR B e R R +R NN oK Ko ALL BUT RAZORS DRAWN IN THE LIMEKILN CLUB ACK DEMPSEY Is a new gentleman of colpr who blew Into town yesterdays and before evening he remarked in the City Prison, on the wrong side of the grating, that he felt second-handed and made over after a misfit About an hour after his arrival in town he made the acquaint- ance of a member of the Limekiln Club at 23 Stockton street, and after much assumed coyness consented to be escorted thither and introduced to the gentlemen who constitute themselves a committee of reception to all new The club became at They piled In on the stranger The flames and the squirming SRIBIN 4R IRIR RN N N RO SOTOTROKRIONR QIO SO OTIO RO 12 G0 D20 ROVR OO HOROROROR HLRORGRORY ROROLOOR DIZOROGING DEITIOSIORIORIII OO SHE LIVED ON CONVERSATION LONG ENOUGH Mrs. Lulu Robbins to Have a Home. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 908 Broadway, Feb. 3. Leigh H. Robbins has decided to aban- don his lite of wedded bllss by wire and has decided to take his wife, formerly Miss Lulu Noe, unto himself. The couple are now looking for a house and will set- tle down to closer family relations than have existed for the last two years. 'his is the little couple who married fully two years ago so secretly that no one knew it, not even their parents, un- til it was announced in The Call last week. They conducted their honeymoon over the telephone and Mrs. Robbins was called Miss Noe and received an occaslon- al call from her husband, just as if they were the most ordinary acquaintances. When the wedding became public Crai- gle Sharp, the stepfather of the bride, de- manded that the young man acknowledge his bride and take her to a home of his own. Mr. Sharp Intimated that the little bride had “lived on conversation long enough’” and that kisses by wire, while they might sound well in a ragtime song, were not particularly conducive to a hap- py matrimonial existence. A few remarks about a public divorce resulting from a secret marriage settled the question and the young couple will go to housekeeping. Ularence Eddy Next Tuesday. OAKLAND, Feb. 3.—Clarence Eddy, the famous organist, will give a recitai on the new organ in the Unitarian church next Tuesday evening. He will be ten- dered an informal reception at the con- clusion of the programme. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS A BACK DATE—Mrs. J. R. G, City. The 23d day of May, 1851, fell on a Friday. ANDREW CARNEGIE—K. B., River- side, Cal. The address of Andrew Carne- gle Is & West Fifty-first street, New York City. NO PREMIUMS—M. B. R., City. No premium is offered for a half dollar of 1847 or one of 1848, nor for dimes from 1839 to 3 NO MARES—S., City. The reason that the United States army does not purchase mares or jennies for the service is that it has no use for such. THE OCEANIC—Subscriber, Stockton, Cal. The dimensions of the Oceanic, the largest steamer afloat, are: 685 feet length, feet breadth and 44 feet deep. er gross tonnage is 17,000 and net TSGE A NICKEL OF 188—M. L. L., City. There i{s no premium on a nickel of 1883, Such can be purchased for 15 cents. The price is the same for those which have the word “‘cents” as those that have not got that word. McLEAN—A. C. M., Calumet, Mich. No one by the name of Mclean was ever elected to the Uplted States Congress from California. Alexander McLean was elected to the State Legislature in 1885 He was an Assemblyman and his term of office was two year: CONVENTION—M. L. P., Los Angeles, Cal. There is a publication called Conven- | tion Dates, to be found in the libraries of your city, that will give vou advance dates of all conventions, poiltical, frater- nal and others, to be held in all parts of the United State WEARING A UNIFORM—G. N., Mare Island, Cal. A man discharged honorably from the service of the United States is not by any law inhibited from wearing the uniform he wore while ir the service. It is his personal progorl)’ and he may wear it as long as it holds together and whenever and rever he chooses. EXPECTANCY OF LIFE—S,, City. By a very simple rule a person can at any time ascertain the number of years that he or she has still to live. The result is not absolutely correct, but it is what the actuarial tables give. Let the individual deduct the present age from 80 and two- thirds of the remainder Is the expectancy of life. NO NEED TO SALUTE—G. N., Mare Island. If a man is honorably discharged at a military post at expiration of term of service and on leaving the post he should meet an officer and not salute him he would not be liable to punishment, for the reason that, having been discharged, he is no longer in the service and sub- ject to military discipline. DISCHARGE FROM THE ARMY—G. N., Mare Island, Cal. An enlisted man dishororably discharged from the United States army does not lose his rights of citizenship unless he was convicted of some offense which carried with it the penalty of imprisonment in a penitentiary. In a case of that kind citizenship couid be restored only through pardon by the President of the United States. SEWING MACHINE—M., Sonoma, Cal. As this department does not advertise any business, cannot give you the address of the sewing machine house inquired about. Send a self-addressed and stamped en- velope and the address will be forwardoed, Correspondents who want information of this character should always send a stamped and self-addressed envelope. FIRST ELECTRIC RAILWAY—S., City. The first electric rallway was one exhib- ited by Slemens at Berlin and Paris in 1881. It was driven by a machine under the car, the current being obtained from a similar machine worked by a stationary steam engine in the vicinity of the rall- way. In the same year a beginning was made of a rallway propelled by electricity at Potrush, in the north of Ireland. TWO HOTELS-S., City. The Grand Hotel was built in 1869 by the Montgomery Real Estate Assoclates and it was opened in May, 1870. The Palace Hotel was com- menced In the spring of 1872 and was opened in 1875. The principal buflding that stood on the site on which the hotel is built was the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum. There were also a number of small structures on the site. FOREIGN POSTMASTERS-D. C. C. C, Oakland, Cal. This department is unable to obtain the names of the postmasters at Malta, Candia, Virgin and Guam, for the reason that the postal authorities here have them not. There is no doubt that if you should send to each of these a sum of money to pay for unused postage stamps of each place that the stamps will be forwarded. but if you are in any way suspiclous and afraid to take the risk do net send the money. AN ACTION FOR RENT—Benedlet, City. If a party Is sued In one county for rent and after judgment—but before it is enforced—the defendant moves Into an- other county, the papers are sent to the Sherift of the countyinto which tha de- fendant has moved and the defendant will be required to -.rg:nr before a Judge of the county in which the papers are served to be examined as to his financial stand- ing. If he is a married man and working for a salary, the debt incurred being for the family, one-half of his salary is liable to be attached ASPECT OF THE PLANETS—Subserib- er, Ban Jose, Cal. The purpose of the de- partment of Answers to Correspondents is to furnish the best information obtain- able about the past and the present, but BERKELEY IS NOT ON RAILROAD MAP None of the Southern Pacific Main Line Trains Stop at Residents and Business College Town. Men Vigorously Protest Against the Unjust Treatment Which Retards the Growth of the Place. ERKELEY, Feb. 8.—The Southern Pacific Company has left Berkeley off the rallroad map. The Ken- tucky corporation uses the college town only as the terminus of its local | trains and, to the disgust of the merchants and the injury of the town, none of the | main line and overland passenger trains stop here, even though the main line of | the company runs through West Berkeley. | When a Berkeley man now wishes to go | to any. point on the main lines of the | Southern Pacific Company he is first com- pelled to go to Oakland, for the rallroad map shows Berkeley as a freight station only. There is a local train to East Berke- ley, which is the college town proper, and another to West Berkeley; but they only accommodate those zens who have business in San Francisco, Oakland or- Alameda. Those who are employed north of Berkeley along the line to Pinole or who wish to reach interfor points must travel by the Southern Pacific circuitous local route. A man whose work calls him to Highland station, a distance of one mile from Berkeley, must either walk or take the local train to the Sixteenth-street station, Oakland, wait for the northbound Sacramento local and ride to his destina- tion. That will consume at least an hour of his time, whereas if the trains stopped | at Berkeley the trip could easlly be made in a few minutes. The business men of Berkeley have con- tended that although the business and population of the town have grown, if the rallroad had done its share things would be to-day in vastly better shape. For years an electric raillway connecting East to West Berkeley has bEel'Lbad"OCBWd by the local improvement clubs. The only means of travel between the two places now is by a one-track hersecar line, which requires half an hour for the trip. Had a stopping place been provided by the rail- way monopoly private means would un- doubtedly have been secured to build a modern street rallway and real estate would have been benefited as well as the community at large. As it is, nothin, has been ddne by the railroad that woul make Berkeley more than a sidetrack and | the town has been greatly injured in con- sequence. C. D. Maloney, Superintendent of Streets, a former Trustee and resident of Berkeléy for twenty-two years, has this to say about the station question: “Twenty yvears ago the Southern Pa- | cific Company promised to make | Berkeley one of its regular stopping- places. It has continued to promise ever since, but has done nothing materfal. It's a shame to people of this town should be thus treated. There are stations between here and Sacramento not gs large ms a small walting-room at which trains stop, | twenty movement is made and a petition by the citizens most concerned got up I think that something may be accomplished Certainly the reputation and prosperity of the town calls for it.” C. Engelbretsen, resident, said: “I have been a resident of Berkeley for ears and have always been in favor of all improvements. When I firs moved to Berkeley the rallroad compas romised to put a pa: tion about alf a mile from its present freight sta- tion. I have been living in anticipation that station ever since and have | walking my mile regulariy every attitude the railroad has taken the residents of Berkeley and has always | maintained is an outrage. e prosperity of the town has been checked and its growth injured. A relative of mine who |is employed by the Giant Powder Works | has had to move his family from Berke- |ley that he might be nearer his work, a distance of but a few miles.” George Schmidt, a real estate man, sald “If we can get a competing line into | Berkeley, “either electric or otherwise, things are sure to boom. As it is the | Southern Pacific has everything in its own | hands and dictates matters as best. That best IS very poor. road has good accommodations | its local trains go, but its main I ice that would beneflt Berkeley material is very inadequate. By making Berkeley a stopping place it will be well advertised and a larger working class will be drawn hither."” Sam Heywood, who owns considerable | Property in West Berkeley, said: | " “ft-the railroad would make Berkeley a regular passenger station 1 think busi- ness here would be greatly benefited. [ | know that the value of real estate would | be greatiy enhanced. The se | at present is very inadequ: | vents many people from making Berkeley | their_home. Those who come here from | the East with their families and look around for a location pass by this place just because the rallway service is poor If the raliroad is determined not to stop its regular main line trains here 1 wish it would find other means by which the workingmen employed north of here may be accommodated.” | "D. H. Bruns, a_prominent grocer, said “T belleve the Southern Pacific will be | forced before long to make some arrange- ment whereby the citizens of this place who are employed north of here will be accommodated. If their regular passen- | ger arains cannot be stopped at Berkel. some other means should be provided think the railroad people ha ‘templating for some time t | of running a branch electric | ley and north. For its think some new and be inaugurated at one | Otto Niehaus, who owns one | 1argest planing mills in this viein another prominent own sake I should tck service should of the 'y, said Srnether thers ara passengers 1o got on o | -k would like to see some arrangement not, but when trains come to Berkeley | Jtade, that would Govs Serieer Made they seem to put on more steam 1o hUITY | gver been satisfactorily done in this com- past, fearing, I belleve, some accident | pyin, PP€™ SRORVARIORY CONS o the Mar- that will compel them to stop. tinez local used to stop at Berkeley at ‘“There are ahout ten thousand people affected by the railroad’s miserly treat- ment. In fact, the whole of Berkeley is | more or less concerned in the matter. Many men would use the train if stopped at Berkeley. A large number are employed by the Giant Powder Company and other companies north of the town who must either get up at daybreak or live near their work. Some have families living in Berkeley whom they do no see oftener than once a week. It's a hardship on them and a handicap to the town. know of a_young man who is employed at So Brant, which is about ten or eleven miles north of this place. In order to get to his work he must either hire a horse or take the down train to the mole, catch the early morning Sacramento local and ride to So Brant. That means a loss_of time of at least an hour and a half. His salary as well as his body suffers. I think it's about time some very radical changes should be made, and if a concentrated | 9:30 o'clock in the morning. That was | kept up for only a_few m was discontinu The . for the workingmen, and consequently was not a paying propesition to the raii- road. The same matter has been adv cated so often in Town Trustee meetings and by clubs that the railroad people be- came antagonized and would not devote any attention to us. If Berkeley can be made a stopping place I know that con- | ditions in general will be better.” George D. Metcalf sald: “I think Berkeley ought to be treated by the railroad as well as its prosperity and location demands. It certainly is an inconvenience to the people of this placa | to have poor train service. Something | should be done to accommodate the men | who have to go north for' their work. Some arrangement should be’ made and | made immediately to better railway tran- | sit and not handicap the town in its de- velopment.™ it does not undertake to deal with the future, as expressed by the aspect of the and for that reason cannot give an opinion of the possible outcome of the war in the Transvaal as laid down in the chart by Zadkiel in his almanac for the current year. POLL TAX—A Subscriber, City. fact that a man between the ages of I1 and 60 1s a Federal employe does not ex- empt him from the payment of State poll tax. Neither Congress nor the State Leg- islature has the power to pass an act ex- empting such from that taxation. It is a constitutional provision that “every male | result_of insufficient observatior The | haps the party who gave the information than the other has no doubt arisen from a statement published a number of years ago to the effect that the ocean level was | higher at Colon, on the Atlantic side of | the proposed Panama canal, than at Pan- ama. on the Pacific side. That statement was not correct and must have been tha or per- to the writer of that article was misun- derstood. It s probable that the state- ment that was made was in regard to | high and low tides. There is very little range of tide at Colon—not more than eighteen or twenty inches. At Panama the range of spring tide is from eighteen to twenty-two feet. The neap tide is from | six to ten feet. inhabitant of (h)s‘ State "‘»’;l’ 21 years ”E‘ &1 e and 60 years of age, exce S £ and s, insane persons and 1n-| HIS IDEA-D. J. City. This corre- dians not ta ay an annual poll | Spondent presents another phase of the tax of not 1 Such tax is pald | century question. He writ find in into the State school, fund. | studying chronology that Christ was born MINORS AND CONTRACTS—C. C.,|foUr years before the commencement of Watsonville, Cal. The law of this State says on the subject of minors and con- tracts: A minor cannot give delegation of power nor under the age of 18 make a contract relating to real property or any interest therein or relating to any person- al property not in his or her immediate possession or control.” “A minor may make a contract other than that specified in the same manner as an adult, subject only to disaffirmance under this title and subject to provisions of title of this code on ‘Marriage and Mas- ter and Servant.’ " THE OCEAN LEVEL—An Old Farmer, Mount Eden, Cal. There is no difference in the mean level of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The idea that one is higher what is called the Christian era or the year of our Lord: in other words, four years B. C. Therefore the only question is not whether this is the beginning of the twentieth or end of the nineteenth century, but whether we are three, four or five years in the twentieth century and whether this should not be 1904. Whether the 4 B. C. began or ended at the begin- ning or end of a year I know not, but one thing is clear—the number oughtto ba 1%04. Refer to chronology in the Encyeclo- pedia Britannica or any Biblical chronol- ogy.” If the correspondent feels that he is living in an advanced age ought to write 1504 this department does not know of l.ni reason why he should not do so, but the majority of people will be content to write 1900 until the close of the year. a headache. CANDY Feel bad today? Over-eating, working and drinking may have caused it, or you may have caught cold. Makes you feel mean — bad taste—and Go upon our advice just once and take CATHARTIC TRADE MARK REGISTERED Any druggist, 10c, , S0c. No mercurial or pill poison in CASCARETS, but an absolutely harmless, purely vegetable compound. potent. They taste good and do good. Get the genuine C.C.C. Feel well tomorrow Pleasant, table, Take one now and